Scott, McManus Honored

Dartmouth receivers Tanner Scott and Tim McManus are among 52 players nationally who have been named to the Football Championship Subdivision Athletics Directors Association Academic All-Star Team. Scott also was selected one of eight finalists for the two $5,000 FCS Athletics Directors Association postgraduate scholarships that will be handed out. Find the official Dartmouth release here.

Both Scott and McManus are expected to return next fall as fifth-year seniors.

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Players Dartmouth went up against this year who were among the 52 players named: linebacker Alex Gross (Columbia), linebacker Jesse Reising and quarterback Patrick Witt (Yale), linebacker Travis Nissey (Bucknell), offensive lineman Mike McCabe (Holy Cross).

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From Tuesday's Daily Dartmouth:

The Alumni Council nominated Gail Koziara Boudreaux ’82 and R. William Burgess ’81 on Dec. 3 for the two open seats on the Board of Trustees. Boudreaux and Burgess will seek to replace exiting trustees Christine Bucklin ’84 and Jose Fernandez ’77 in the election this spring, college officials announced at the Council’s Dec. 17 meeting.

Boudreaux is the all-time leading scorer and rebounder in Dartmouth women’s basketball history, averaging 21.9 points and a whopping 18.4 rebounds per game as a 6-foot-2 post. Her son Chris will be a Dartmouth freshman next fall. The 6-5, 240 senior at Lake Forest Academy played football for the first time last season and is planning to give the game a shot in Hanover.

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It's not sports but for a look at the overall early decision class at Dartmouth, check out this story in the Daily D.

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Read the newspaper or listen to the radio and you'll hear it all the time. This college football team or that college athletic department lost X amount of money last year. Kudos to University of New Hampshire President Mark Huddleston for setting the record straight. Hopefully the media are listening.

A little background. On Dec. 29, Foster's Daily Democrat ran an editorial about the UNH athletic department facing a $1 million deficit.

Huddleston's response, in part:

UNH athletics does not run a deficit — not unless one is also willing to say that the UNH Library routinely runs a deficit because the amount of money collected in overdue book fines doesn't cover the library's operating costs or the Music Department is in deficit because its per capita share of undergraduate tuition plus the sale of concert tickets doesn't pay the salary and benefits for music faculty and the upkeep of the Johnson Theatre. Like the library and the Music Department-and almost every other unit on campus-athletics was never meant to be a self-sustaining enterprise. UNH Athletics is a core part of UNH. It is central to who we are and what we do.

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Strange thing, this United Football League. Not only is former Dartmouth assistant Joe Moglia likely to consider a switch from head coach of one team to head coach of another before he's ever been on the sidelines for a game, but the league may help him make the move. Find the story here (and thanks for the link).

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It's not often you find something applicable to football in a story about a golfer but it's hard not to appreciate the motto Camilo Villegas has on the wall of his home gym:

SACRIFICE OR REGRET...YOU CHOOSE!

Words to win by.